The Vent and Rant Thread

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

If you refer to "thanks for the karma comment!" I think that means exactly what it says, and is not intended as sarcasm. Those karma numbers mean absolutely nothing, and KK and you both know that. So she meant "thanks for saying you liked it".

{ Here ... have a super sized Zany Carter Deluxe. Both of you. Marc, silvousplais? (see that's what I hate about French ... they throw in too many extra letters that they didn't use, so I haven't a HOPE of spelling that right. }

Accepted with thanks.

Let peace reign throughout the land.

Cheers.

[wodin]

Nevermind!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Well, now that I've already ordered one, and can only slap myself upside the head when I see what I've missed, do you have a link? (Yes, I am a glutton for punishment! )

was it this one?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

was it this one?

That looks neat!

This is the one I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y6CJJ8

[GraceKrispy]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Here's my rant. I can't include a message when I Karma someone using my mobile devices (droidx or xoom).

I can sent the karma, but if I try to include a message the pop-up disappears.

Did you see when bjones posted a while back that a long press will bring up the box? I believe I tried it after she posted that and it worked for me...? I haven't posted from my droid in a while, though.

If I must vent and rant, I shall...daggum my lack of productivity!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

That looks neat!

This is the one I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y6CJJ8

I have one very similar to that and it is just short of worthless

[wyndslash]

wait, i think i have that mouse too. nobody's using it, though. i found it hard to use.

[Freeshadow]

its good enough for that little bit a mouse is needed when working on a comp.
a gamer would rather ask if it's some kind of short range weaponry in disguise intended to be thrown at the opponent during the next LAN-party...

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

That looks neat!

This is the one I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y6CJJ8

I've been using that same mouse for a year now and I have no complaints at all, at first I was worried that it might be to small, but now if I have to use the corded mouse on my desktop that mouse feels huge.

One thing to be careful of is the battery, I use mine exclusively on my laptop and am always putting everything in the bag and when I first got the mouse I forgot to switch it off, if you do this your battery life will be short, a month or so. When switching it off I get an average of 3 months +/- on a new Energizer battery. I did use rechargeable batteries and I wasn't impressed with them, they weren't new so that could have been this issue.

The sensor works great on every surface except clear glass, my office table has clear glass and I have to use a mousepad (piece of white paper ). It also doesn't work well on a cat, but then this is more because of the cats movements

[Stitchawl]

I'm really getting ticked off with the media regarding the crisis in Japan...
The low, underhanded ploys for attention that the media use do nothing other than exacerbate people's fears and worries.....

Now that the Sendai region is beginning to dig itself out from the destruction wrought by the tsunami, the biggest news is about the problems with the nuclear reactor. So of course, the media whores need to play on world insecurities to maintain rating points....

Today, CNN headlines:
"Radiation tests on planes from Japan yield positive blips."

The copy goes on to read;
(CNN) -- Heightened radiation screening on flights arriving in the United States from Japan has triggered several low-level alerts.
An American Airlines plane that arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Tokyo on Wednesday created a blip on equipment being used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to screen inbound flights for radioactivity.

But it's not until the sixth paragraph that they say;
"No aircraft entering the United States has tested positive for radiation at harmful levels," according to a CBP statement Thursday."

The flight was carrying medical isotopes, being sold to US hospitals, but that doesn't make for such hot headlines...

Is it any wonder that I receive 5-10 e-mails a day from people believing that everyone in Japan now glows in the dark!


Stitchawl

[wyndslash]

the media makes things worse than they usually are. it's no wonder that there's more panic in our time.

there's been needless worrying here too due to the media and someone told them to think before they speak.

[SameOldStory]

I know that the news media has very low confidence/respect ratings, but when I tried to check just what they were I couldn't find anything but old numbers. And very little at that.

In general, the gross inaccuracies and ignorance of those reporting the news is astounding.

[SameOldStory]

Just saw this from Reuters;
US West Coast radiation risk low but fears persist

The "risks" to the US are, practically speaking, none.

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Heck, I spent YEARS learning not to pee in bed! Now you tell me that there's a way I could have been doing it in an acceptable manner?!?


Stitchawl

Acceptable right up until it spills !!

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I'm really getting ticked off with the media regarding the crisis in Japan...
The low, underhanded ploys for attention that the media use do nothing other than exacerbate people's fears and worries.....

Now that the Sendai region is beginning to dig itself out from the destruction wrought by the tsunami, the biggest news is about the problems with the nuclear reactor. So of course, the media whores need to play on world insecurities to maintain rating points....

Today, CNN headlines:
"Radiation tests on planes from Japan yield positive blips."

The copy goes on to read;
(CNN) -- Heightened radiation screening on flights arriving in the United States from Japan has triggered several low-level alerts.
An American Airlines plane that arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Tokyo on Wednesday created a blip on equipment being used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to screen inbound flights for radioactivity.

But it's not until the sixth paragraph that they say;
"No aircraft entering the United States has tested positive for radiation at harmful levels," according to a CBP statement Thursday."

The flight was carrying medical isotopes, being sold to US hospitals, but that doesn't make for such hot headlines...

Is it any wonder that I receive 5-10 e-mails a day from people believing that everyone in Japan now glows in the dark!


Stitchawl

I agree completely, I've stopped watching my local news channels as of a few years ago. Every day they would have some teaser on telling you about some amazing thing that will change your life, or some earth shattering news about someone that will change how you feel about them. Then you watch the news, and they string you along through out the entire broadcast, telling you to "stay tuned", "keep watching", "don't miss this", "coming up soon", and then the very last thing on the broadcast, after you've waited and watched the rest of inane "news", they tell you that the in depth, under cover reporting they did at the local schools, the fact that you can't miss, that will change your life and affect where you send you kids for years to come is ..... there is this one school, a couple of years, just this one time, served rolls with their hot lunch that had gone over the expiration date by 1 day.


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


It's all about the rating and nothing about content or anything anyone can actually use.

[Mortis]

Its all about sound bites and no context to make sense of the sound bite.

"Man kills 3 and gets away with it" They forgot to mention he was playing a video game to be released soon.